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...acclaimed, privately developed program called AVID. It places C students in the most rigorous courses available, then gives them the support necessary to succeed, including an extra class period each day devoted to individual tutoring. All of Fox's 90 AVID students now plan to go to college. Senior Precious Wright, 18, was forced to move to Kansas after her grandmother, with whom she had been living, died last year. Wright was afraid that without the help of AVID, she wouldn't get into college. So she bought a bus ticket back to San Antonio and lives...
GILDED RETURNS America's gold rush inspired many a Hollywood film, but it has given little inspiration to investors. Flourishing stocks and low inflation have tarnished precious-metal fund performances. Is this a comeback year? The average fund is up a shiny 14.6% YTD. But there's no consensus. The current volatile market seems ripe for a gold rush, but some analysts warn that the luster will fade when the market regains altitude later this year...
...Buffy" creator Joss Whedon came out to thank his new masters, saying it was "not in my nature" to be brief - and then proved himself right. It was charming, his precious locutions - "I'd like to say two words, 'thank' and 'you'" - making him seem like a kind of husky male Willow. At least for the first, oh, five hours or so (My notes end, "Joss Whedon will not shut up."). As Whedon rambled on - UPN must not have known what was coming, as the teleprompter apparently said only "Joss speaks" - the audience eventually played him off, applauding at every...
Protect your head from injury. Trauma to the head and even a brief loss of consciousness can eat away at precious brain reserve. The association of strokes and Alzheimer's is even stronger. So wear a helmet when biking, buckle your seat belt in the car and reduce your risk of stroke by quitting smoking, exercising regularly and keeping your blood pressure down...
While yoga postures, breathing and meditation do relax and rejuvenate both body and mind, these are simply the means to the end that is yoga's ultimate purpose and most precious benefit: the realization of our transcendent divine nature. By stilling the mind and moving us deep into the body, yoga creates the space for us to feel and follow the promptings of our heart and soul. In such moments of clear being, we remember that the body, with its companion mind, is at last nothing but a temple for the mysterious spirit that we all are. SUZANNE SELBY GRENAGER...